Abstract
Through the middle of year 2018 to the beginning of 2019, there have been dramatic changes of housing policy based on
the housing strategy or plan, as a political statement or a commitment, by new or continuing administration in the US, the
UK and Germany.
The background could be commonly illustrated by the pressure of national voices due to social and economic problems
derived by population and household growth through historical increase of immigrants and recent sharp increase of
refugees. But there are also some temperature differences naturally among these 3 countries as the housing policy is
regarded as an independent local policy made in consideration of the culture of people’s living thereof.
This article does not intend to argue on the Populism in relation to increasing immigrants and/or refugees, but to present
the latest situation of housing policy changes in each country, and to reconsider “What is a housing policy and for whom?”
Because it is likely that Japan would encounter the similar situation within a visible term, we have to prepare for it.
